Thanks, It's good to know I can use php and Java together. The link should help a lot. John On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 05:01:24AM -0400, E.J. Zufelt wrote: > Good morning John, > You will need to use something like the Tomcat server by Apache to offer > Java server pages (JSP) to your users. However, you don't have to choose > either PHP or Java. You can use PHP and Java together for a website. > See: > [1]http://php.net/manual/en/book.java.php > HTH, > Everett Zufelt > [2]http://zufelt.ca > Follow me on Twitter > [3]http://twitter.com/ezufelt > > View my LinkedIn Profile > [4]http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt > On 2010-08-13, at 4:34 AM, John J. Boyer wrote: > > As you know, BrailleBlaster is being written in Java. It is a desktop > application. Making it a web applicationn would be another project. > nevertheless, since I am learning Java, I would like to apply that > knowledge to my websites. I think that this is what Bookshare does. So > where do I begin? > > The braille knowledge in BrailleBlaster is largely contained in two C > libraries, liblouis and liblouisutdml Tarballs for both can be found on > the downloads page of [5]http://www.abilitiessoft.com Both also have > projecgtg pages on googlecode. They will remain C libraries so that they > do not require a run-time environment and thus can be used with various > high-level languages. liblouis has Python bindings, and liblouisutdml > has Java bindings. BrailleBlaster will call liblouisutdml directly, > which will call liblouis for actual translation, while itself doing the > xml rendering and braille formatting. It will also add markup in the > Unified Tactile Document Language (UTDML). > > Thanks, > John > > -- > John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer > Abilitiessoft, Inc. > [6]http://www.abilitiessoft.com > Madison, Wisconsin USA > Developing software for people with disabilities > > __________ > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind > > References > > Visible links > 1. http://php.net/manual/en/book.java.php > 2. http://zufelt.ca/ > 3. http://twitter.com/ezufelt > 4. http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt > 5. http://www.abilitiessoft.com/ > 6. http://www.abilitiessoft.com/ -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind